75 years ago today, Australia’s first computer booted up

November 18th, 2024

Cosmos Magazine, Other, 14/11/2024, Evrim Yazgin
On 14 November 1949, Australia’s first computer was switched on. CSIR Mk1 (later renamed CSIRAC) was designed and built by Trevor Pearcey with help from Maston Beard and Geoff Hill. […] He joined the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), which in 1949 became the CSIRO – still Australia’s national science agency.

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